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• Authorities are
searching for suspects who allegedly stole between $8 million and $15 million
nationwide in a credit card theft ring that took credit card numbers through
skimmers placed on gas stations pumps. – Coeur d’Alene Press

1. October
30, Coeur d’Alene Press – (National) Skimming at the pump. Authorities
are searching for suspects who allegedly stole between $8 million and $15
million nationwide in a credit card theft ring that took credit card numbers
through skimmers placed on gas stations pumps. Police in Post Falls, Idaho,
found two devices on pumps at area gas stations that have been traced to a
significant number of credit card fraud cases. Source: http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_983fb429-1ef1-539c-9ca5-6887bcb75fdf.html

2. October
29, Mississippi Press – (National) Pascagoula woman among seven
indicted in massive federal oil spill fraud case. Federal authorities
unsealed a September 15 indictment October 29 alleging that 7 defendants
conspired to defraud several victims by taking personal information, including
Social Security numbers, from various sources to create phantom clients for
litigation against BP following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The group
submitted approximately 44,000 names as plaintiffs seeking over $2 billion in
claims from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust disaster relief program. Source: http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2015/10/pascagoula_woman_among_seven_i.html

• A Dynamic
International Airways plane caught fire October 29 leaving 17 people injured
and prompting 43 flights to be cancelled and 219 flights to be delayed at Fort
Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida. – CNN

4. October
30, CNN – (Florida) Plane catches fire on runway at Fort Lauderdale
airport. Forty-three flights were cancelled and 219 flights were delayed at
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida October 29 after a
Dynamic International Airways plane begin leaking fuel and caught fire, causing
17 people to be transported to area hospital with injuries. The airport was
temporarily closed while passengers were evacuated and the incident was
cleared.

• Warner Chilcott US
Sales LLC agreed to plead guilty October 29 and pay $125 million to resolve
charges that the company illegally marketed 7 drugs, paid kickbacks to doctors,
and submitted false claims to government health care programs. – Reuters

10. October
29, Reuters – (International) Allergen unit to plead guilty to health care
fraud, pay $125 mln. The U.S. Department of Justice announced October 29
that Warner Chilcott US Sales LLC, part of Allergen Plc, agreed to plead guilty
and pay $125 million to resolve U.S. charges that the company illegally
marketed 7 drugs, paid kickbacks to doctors to persuade them to prescribe the
drugs, and submitted false claims to government health care programs.

3. October
29, Somerville Courier News – (New Jersey) Hillsborough
resident admits to $400,000 bank fraud. Officials reported that a man who
owned Kelmar Construction Co., pleaded guilty to 2 counts of bank fraud before
a Federal court in Newark, New Jersey, October 29 for using his construction
company to sell properties to straw buyers and create phony loan documents,
which he used to fraudulently obtain a $400,500 loan on a property in Irvington
in 2007.

For additional stories, see
item 1 above in Top Storiesand item 17 below from the Commercial Facilities Sector

17. October
28, Lincoln Journal Star – (Nebraska; Iowa) Skimming devices found at
6 Nebraska stores, Casey’s says. Ankeny, Iowa-based Casey’s General Stores
reported October 28 that skimming devices were found at 6 of its convenience
stores located in Nebraska and 1 in Iowa prompting the company to check nearly
1,900 other locations for suspicious devices. Shoppers who used a credit or
debit card at the Nebraska stores between October 2 and October 10 and
consumers who shopped between October 15 and October 21 at the company’s Iowa
location were alerted of the incident. Source: http://journalstar.com/business/local/skimming-devices-found-at-nebraska-stores-casey-s-says/article_6bbe6bca-e025-56a0-b7bf-cc87545fbed7.html

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U.S. Army Retired Chief Warrant Officer with more than 40 years in information technology and 35 years in information security. Became a Certified Information Systems Security Professional in 1995 and have taught computer security in Asia, Canada and the United States. Wrote a computer security column for 5 years in the 1980s titled "for the Sake Of Security", penname R. E. (Bob) Johnston, which was published in Computer Decisions.
Motto: "When entrusted to process, you are obligated to safeguard"